COVID-19: MOH improves psychosocial support for Sabahans, frontliners
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the helpline -- 088-338088 -- was to assist Sabahans and the state's frontliners who are in need of support, especially during crisis situations. - Bernama
PUTRAJAYA:The surge in daily COVID-19 positive cases in Sabah has prompted the Ministry of Health (MOH) to improve the coverage of its special Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS) via the ministry's Psychosocial Help Line for the people in the state.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the helpline -- 088-338088 -- was to assist Sabahans and the state's frontliners who are in need of support, especially during crisis situations.
"This helpline is to help those who need emotional support services and early psychological intervention.
"The MOH also provides counselling services to frontline personnel on the field in order to identify those beginning to experience mental fatigue and to help them in relation to their mental health," he said at a press conference on the development of the COVID-19 situation here today.
The MOH hoped that the country's heroes and heroines would persevere and continue to fight against the onslaught of the third wave of the pandemic in Malaysia.
- BERNAMA
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